This Gift of Time

When I (re)launched Pathways of Spirit back in March of 2018, I reference something my friend and colleague, the Rev. Kathleen McTigue, wrote.  I noted then that it had originally been written for New Year's Day, yet could also be considered apropos for the "new day" at the beginning of any new venture.  Given that we've just passed the calendrical New Year's Day, I thought I'd point our attention to it again:

The first of January is another day dawning, the sun rising as the sun always rises, the earth moving in its rhythms, with or without a certain as the day of new beginning, separating the old from the new.  So it is:  everything is the same, bound into its history as we ourselves are bound. 

Yet we also stand at a threshold, the new year something truly new, still unformed, leaving a stunning power in our hands: 

What shall we do with this great gift of Time, this year? 

Let us begin by remembering that whatever justice, whatever peace and wholeness might bloom in our world this year, we are the hearts and minds, the hands and feet, the embodiment of all the best visions of our people.  

The year can be new ground for the seeds of our dreams.  Let us take the step forward, together, onto new ground, planting our dreams well, faithfully, and in joy.

For the rest of this month I'm going to "unpack" this passage a bit, because I think there's a whole lot in there for us to play with.

Pax tecum,

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